Safety-razor-blade holder.



B. F. STAMM. SAFETY RAZOR BLADE HOLDE APPLICATION FILED 920.10, 19

Paented 0015.28, 1913.

Suma/woz BENJAMIN F STAMM, 0F HUNT, ILLINOIS.

SAFETY-RAZOR-BLADE HOLDER.

Application led December 10, 19.12. Serial No. 736,034.

To all fui/0m 2'25' may concern Be it known that I, BENJAMIN F. STAMM, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hunt, in the county of 'Jasper and State of Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvenients in Safety-Razor-Blade Holders, of which the following isa specification.

This invention relates to a holder for safety razor blades, whereby single or double edged blades of different sizes and thicknesses may be lclamped and held securely while the blade is being stropped, the

- object of the invention being to provide a simple, reliable, eflicient and inexpensive device of this character which will enable the clamped blade to be conveniently manipulated for stropping.

The invention consists of the features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described and claimed, reference being had-to the accom' panying drawings, in which Figure l is a perspective view ofthe device showing a blade clamped thereto. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the device with the blade removed and with the handle shown partially in longitudinal section. Figl 3 is a detail transverse'section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1, through the bladeand clamping` member. Fig. 4 is a View showing the parts of the device separated. In carrying my invention into practice I provide a handle l, of any suitable material, which handle is providedy at one end with a receiving socket 2, adapted to receive the free ends of the arms ofa .blade clamping member 3. f

Thev blade clamping member 3 consists of a single piece of heavy half round spring steel wire, folded or bent upon itself, as'at 4, midway of its length to provide arms 5 and G, whose fiattened surfaces face each other. These arms are adapted to normally spread apart under their natural resiliency and to be drawn up and inserted at their free ends into the socket 2 of the handle, to hold said arms in clamping relation.

The arms are provided adjacent their connectcd ends with clamping surfaces 7 and have their free ends offset outwardly as at 8, so that the portions 7, when the arms are closed, may be drawn into parallel relation to clamp a. safety razor blade 9, the construction being such that single or double edged blades of different sizes and thicknesses may be readily and conveniently Specication of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 28,1 913.

clamped. It will be seen by reference to Fig. lthat a blade 9 may be clamped and held securely between the surfaces 7, whereupon the operator by grasping the handle l may conveniently manipulate the blade to strop the same without liability of injury to the operator. In inserting a blade the clamping member is withdrawn from vthe handle, the blade fitted between the. surfaces 7, the arms of the clamping member l vdrawn together, and the free ends of said arms then insertedin the socket, thus firmly clamping the blade in position. To release the stropped` blade it is simply necessary to withdraw the clamping member from engagement with the handle whereupon'the arms 5 and 6 will spring apart and release the blade.

The device may be employed for holding either single or double edged blades. In its use for holding double or duplex blades, one of the edges of the blade is inserted between the jaws, which are wide enough to clamp the blade and at the same time. to cover and guard the clamped edge there-Av of. In thismanner one edge of the blade may be sharpened and the blade may then be reinforced upon the holder and the otherl edge sharpened. v

It will be seen that a. device of the character described may be constructed and supplied a-t a comparatively low cost, and furnishes a simple and effective type of holder for the purpose specified.

It will be observed that the arms 5 and G have outer Hattened faces l0 which are beveled or rounded along their longitudinal edges, as at 11. By this construction the faces l() are adapted to ride in contact with the surfaces of a stiop and hold the free edge of the blade at the proper angle or bevel for stropping it, while such formation of the arms adapts the device to be readily pivoted or turned on the strop for the 'reverse strokes in stropping the opposite sides of the edge of the blade, the ad,-

vantages of which will be apparent.

A safety razor blade holder comprising a uniformly wide strip of half-round spring metal bent or doubled upon itself at a- Lon-mai and jaws together and dispose the jaws to clamp an interposed blade.

ln testimony whereof ll afliX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

BENJAMIN l. STAMM,

l/ltnesses RALPH W. LEWIS, CLARENCE H.. Sumar. 

